[Alpine-info] email+TAG@domain

Iosif Fettich via Alpine-info alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Mon Sep 15 04:18:12 PDT 2025


Hi dear fellow alpine users,

I'm trying to refine my roles a bit and am not really sure if what I want
can be achieved in some way with what we have or if this message of mine
is rather something like a feature request.

In order to use say emails like myemail+TAG at domain when subscribing to
some newsletter or service, I'm currently having a handful of roles, one
per service(TAG).

But by doing so, for each new service I have to define a new role, which
is rather tedious.

When I get an email that has the +TAG in the To: header, I switch to the
respective role when replying and then things are fine.

But that requires attention - and often enough, especially if I'm in a
hurry, I forget about selecting the proper role and end up sending the
mail with my regular, untagged FROM address.

Ideally, I'd wish that whenever there's a '+TAG' in the TO: header of a
message that reaches my Inbox, my replies would automatically use the
received TO: header as FROM: for the new mail.

Can this be achieved easily, am I just missing the proper way to do it?

Thank you,

Iosif Fettich


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